Cosmic Treasure Chest By European Space Agency

NGC 1512 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Grains of Cosmic Dust: the Eta Aquarids l Petr Horalek 

 Abell 21, Medusa Nebula, Dreadful Beauty

Approximately 1 billion light years across, the largest known structure in the universe consists of 830 galaxies nestled within 4 connecting galaxy clusters.

As above, so below.

Credits to the lovely people over at NASA and ESA. Image by Science Photo Library.

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The Pillars of Creation at the heart of the Eagle Nebula (M16) // SolarVortex3562

The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33, left) and the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024, bottom) // Dale Bush

Pelican Nebula in Cygnus © Eric Lagadec  

Before you ask, yes, we see that face-shaped cloud made of dust and gas (with stars for eyes) on the right side of this image as well.  

But the Tarantula Nebula is a far wilder place than weird red blobs. It is a large star-forming region of ionized hydrogen gas that lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its turbulent clouds of gas and dust can be seen swirling between the region’s luminous, newly formed stars.

Also known as 30 Doradus, it is the brightest star-forming region in our galactic neighborhood and home to the hottest, most massive stars known. This makes it an excellent natural laboratory to test theories of star formation and evolution. 

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi; Y.-H. Chu.

Hubble inspects a contorted spiral galaxy by europeanspaceagency

Amazing

Collisions in Dying Star: Rotten Egg Nebula ©